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Wolfgang Zurborn – Drift

UNO ART SPACE, Stuttgart

Wolfgang Zurborn, LUsionen #31, Ludwigshafen 2003


Wolfgang Zurborn - Drift

March 6th – July 4th 2010

Opening: March 6th 2010, 7 - 10 p.m.
Finissage: July 3rd 2010, 8 - 10 p.m.

Uno Art Space - Ute Noll
On Photography & Illustration
Liststrasse 27
70180 Stuttgart
0711 66 48 72 85
www.on-photography.com

Slideshow Drift

Change of display case

Frederic Lezmi - From Vienna to Beirut
Searching for the border between Europe and the Orient.

May 7th 2010, 8 p.m.
Talk between Frederic Lezmi and Wolfgang Zurborn

From August to December 2008 I was „en route” between Vienna and Beirut. During my travel, I encountered people in versatile worlds, inside or in front of architectural places, both real and artificial, public and private. In my photographs, people emerge either as just passers-by or while waiting, as subjects and objects of the viewer’s eye, moving about in their urban or rural environment. These are distanced views in which locals and tourists are on their paths, randomly congregating and forming elusive compositions. These pictures represent neither precise documents nor do they create artistic worlds. They rather mean to be constructions of multicolored, fragmented impressions, like looking through a kaleidoscope. I often show architectural monuments, including the social life taking place within, in various superimposed layers and conditions. Through reflections and fragmentations within the images, the viewer’s eye is being multiplied, inverted and divided in order to put on trial and call in question the perception of cultural differences and their importance for the “present” and the “past” of our society.

Welcome!

You will find a detailed description of Wolfgang Zurborn's photographic
work under "Portfolio".

Biographical information, publications and exhibitions can be found under "Info".

contact

mail@wolfgangzurborn.de

Galerie Lichtblick

Deutsche Fotografische
Akademie

Frederic Lezmi, Beyond Borders - From Vienna to Beirut White Press, 2009

ÜberTage

Pixelprojekt_Ruhrgebiet -
Photographic Statements about the Presence of a Region

Art Museum Mülheim

Wolfgang Zurborn, untitled, Dortmund, 1981

ÜberTage
Pixelprojekt_Ruhrgebiet-
Photographic Statements about the Presence of a Region

January 29th - March 21st 2010

opening: January 28th 2010, 7 p.m.
speakers:
Dagmar Mühlenfeld, mayor of Mülheim an der Ruhr
Dr. Beate Reese, director of the museum
Peter Liedtke, director of Pixelprojekt_Ruhrgebiet

Art Museum Mülheim
in der Alten Post
Synagogenplatz 1
Tue, Wed, Fri 11 a.m.–5 p.m. , Thu 11 a.m.–9 p.m., Sat, Sun 10 a.m.–5 p.m., closed at Mondays

Slideshow of my series "Vorgarten der Illusionen" (1980-84)
on the website of Pixelprojekt_Ruhrgebiet

Participating photographers:

Dominik Asbach, Joachim Brohm, Christoph Buckstegen,
Henning Christoph, Christian Diehl, Frank Dietz, Leonard Freed.
Harald Hoffmann, Birgit Hupfeld, Christoph Kniel, Brigitte Kraemer,
Dirk Kruell, Horst Lang, Bernd Langmack, Britta Lauer, Peter Liedtke,
Knut Wolfgang Maron, Duane Michals, Ben Plefka, Tania Reinicke,
Vitali Saloshanka, Walter Schernstein, Heiner Schmitz, Georg Schreiber, Joachim Schumacher, Wolfgang Schwager, Sophia Simons,
Anton Stankowski, Bettina Steinacker, Markus Steur, Tobias Uhlmann, Manfred Vollmer, Michael Wolf, Wolfgang Zurborn
sowie die Gemeinschaftsarbeit "Probesitzen" der jungen Fotografinnen
Anne Lass, Annette Jonak, Patricia Neligan und Almut von Pusch.

Wolfgang Zurborn,
Castrop Rauxel, 1982

Wolfgang Zurborn,
Castrop Rauxel, 1982

come home 11

Touring exhibition in flats curated by Steff Adams

Wolfgang Zurborn, untitled. Cologne 2005

come home 11

March 19th - 21st, 2010

opening: Friday, March 19th, 7 p.m.
with a concert by The Great Park and Fee Rega
Saturday, March 20th, 4 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 21st, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.

by Steff Adams
Gereonswall 27a
50668 Cologne

phone: 0221 / 5 10 31 51
Fax: 0221 / 7 10 59 15
steff@kommensienachhause.de
www.kommensienachhause.de

come home – a traveling exhibition
Ideas, second thoughts, sketches, and the remains of abandoned projects in the form of objects, books and photographs, culled from the depth of the proverbial drawer, are for the first time made accessible to an interested public. The work, ranging from the ephemeral to the mundane to the bold, will be shown in the domestic setting of an authentic apartment.

participating artists:

Achim Mohné • Agii Gosse • André Falck • Andreas M. Wiese • Angelika Stienecke • Anja Lenze • Anja Schreiber • Anja Z Gna • Annette Reichardt •Antoine Carvalho • Armin Künstler • Barbara Deblitz • Benita Thisbe von Eiag Benno Schlicht • Bettina Bormann • Bettina Bouchon • Birgit Szepanski • Brigitta Anna Schumacher • Britta Schopf • Britta Wandaogo • Christa Niestrath • Christine Peters • Claudia Immig • Dorothee Schäfer • Dorthe Goeden • Elena Pinci Schneider • Elisabeth Höller • Ellen, Marlon, Nelson Altegoer • Eric Mayen • Esther Kusche • Eva Jaskolski • Fee Rieger • Florian Scholz • Frank Frick • Frank Göldner • Frederic Lezmi • Friederike Huft • Gabriele Vorbrodt • Gerhard Glimm • Gudrun F. Widlok • Harald Busch • Harvey Benge • Heiko Diekmeier • Ina Holitzka • Ina Vermehr • Julia Seidensticker • Juliane Wenzl • Jürgen Paas • Kaddi Wandaogo • Karin Meiner • Karl-Heinz Mauermann • Kathrin Bergmann • Katja Struif • Kawarasaki Takamitu • Kirsten Klöckner • Laas Abendroth • Lennart Gätjen • Linda Weiss • Manfred Hammes • Manuela Krekeler-Marx • Marc Volk • Maria Jauregui • Ponte Martina Kobernuß • Meinolf Koessmeier • Merel Mirage • Midori Mitamura • Natascha Sonnenschein • Odine Lang • Philipp Schlickum • Pit Goertz • Rainer Kiel • Ralf Hennerici • Ralf Witthaus • Ramin Khadjaviha • Regine Strehlow-Lorenz • Robert Küppers • Ruth Knecht • Sabine Knappe • Sabine Weber • Simone Neveling • Sonja Kuprat • Stefanie C. Zürn • Steff Adams • Stephan Brenn • Stephen Burch • Stevens Ragone • Suria Kassimi • Susan Feind Sylvia Reuße • Thomas Schneider • Thomas Zika • Tilman Lothspeich • Tina Schelhorn • Triloff • Ulrike Waltemathe • Ulli Rödder • Uwe Ahlgrimm • Verena Loevenhaupt • Volker Fischer • Wolfgang Vollmer • Wolfgang Zurborn

Slideshow

with my contributions
to the exhibitions:
come home 1-9
(1999-2007)

come home 4, 2002

Calender Galleries in Frankfurt

photographs by Wolfgang Zurborn

photographs by Wolfgang Zurborn from the calender Galleries in Frankfurt
Claudia Wieser, Gallery Eva Winkeler

Slideshow Gallery-Calender

Galerien in Frankfurt
Calender of Stritzinger GmbH Druck + Daten
13 photographs by Wolfgang Zurborn
Celina Lunsford, Artistic Director, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
Sabine Seitz, Managing Director, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt

participating galleries:
Galerie Maurer • Japan Art, Galerie Friedrich Müller • Galerie F.A.C. Prestel
Galerie Anita Beckers • L.A. Galerie • galerie martina detterer
Bernhard Knaus Fine Art GmbH • Kai Middendorf Galerie • Galerie Greulich
Galerie Braubachfive • galerie leuenroth gmbh • Galerie Eva Winkeler
galerie wagner + marks

Japan Art,
Galerie Friedrich Müller

Galerie Greulich

Mitten im Westen

A Journey of Discovery in the Rhein-Sieg-Area


Dirk Gebhardt, Axel Thünker, Stefan Worring, Wolfgang Zurborn

Book cover Mitten im Westen, Photo: Wolfgang Zurborn

Mitten im Westen
A journey of discovery in the Rhein-Sieg-Area

Dirk Gebhardt, Axel Thünker, Stefan Worring and Wolfgang Zurborn are creating an exciting image of the region between the rivers Rhein and Sieg near Cologne and Bonn. With different photographic perspectives they sensitize the viewer similarly to historical, social and cultural aspects in the middle of the west of Germany.

Photographs by:
Dirk Gebhardt, Axel Thünker, Stefan Worring, Wolfgang Zurborn
Concept: Dirk Gebhardt, Wolfgang Zurborn
Editor: Rhein-Sieg-Kreis
www.rhein-sieg-kreis.de
published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne
ISBN: 978-3-462-03819-4

Slideshow

with photographs from the book Mitten im Westen

Axel Thünker, Former Augustiner Nun Diocese
St. Agnes, Eitorf-Merten

Exhibition Mitten im Westen

January 2nd 2010 – January 31st 2010


Finissage: January 30st 2010, 8 p.m.

Galerie Lichtblick
Steinbergerstr. 21
50733 Cologne
www.lichtblicknet.com

opening hours: Fri 7-9 p.m., Sat+Son 2-6 p.m.
and by appointment: +49 (0)221 729149

Art Orchestra Kwaggawerk
at the opening

                
Video

Stefan Worring, Brückberger Veedelszoch, Siegburg

Wolfgang Zurborn, Drachenfels, Königswinter

Dirk Gebhardt,
Windeck-Schladern

Workshop Elegance and Experiment

at Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg

January 23rd and 24th 2010

Wolfgang Zurborn, Spiel_Orte #1, 2004

Elegance and Experiment
Photo Workshop by Wolfgang Zurborn
accompanying to the exhibtion by Lillian Bassman and Paul Himmel
at Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg,
January 23rd - 24th 2010, 10 a.m.– 6 p.m.

Workshop Application:
eckardt@deichtorhallen.de


Linda Eckardt-S.
Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Haus der Photographie
Deichtorstrasse 1+2 - D-20095 Hamburg
Pone: 040-32103-240 - Fax: 040-32103-230
http://www.deichtorhallen.de/

Invitation of the exhibition by Lilian Bassman and Paul Himmel at Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg,
November 27th 2009 - February 21st 2010

Die Mediale Stadt

Seminar at the Technical University, Braunschweig

Jewoo Park, Die Mediale Stadt

with photographs of the participating students
(enlarged display by clicking on the images)

Michel Correa • Linda Diekmann • Felix Dihle • Stephanie Gross
Nadine Hentschel • Lena Hermbusch • Annabelle Hillegeist
Hui Hong • Mira Lehnfeld • Astrid Lißner • Jose Lorente
Nastasia Nass • Jewoo Park • Stephanie Pohle • Larissa Schaad
Martin Schatton • Christoph Schnelke • Olga Stepien • Aysegül Tek
Cindy-Jane Tichatschke • Maarit Wiebe • Nora Wierlemann
Markus Wilke • Merle Woköck • Steffen Zwirlein

Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg

Wolfgang Zurborn   Drift   Photographs 1980-2006

Wolfgang Zurborn, untitled, Maastricht 2002
Edition print for the exhibition, paper size 40x30 cm

Haus der Photographie is showing the first extensive overview of Wolfgang Zurborns work. Under the title Drift - Photographs 1980-2006 this exhibition presents the series Drift, the recently published project China! Which China? and, additionally, the early black & white work Vorgarten der Illusionen (1980- 1985). This collection gives a broad impression of Wolfgang Zurborns photographic approach which has already been sharp-cut 25 years ago.
The exhibition is curated by Ingo Taubhorn.

Wolfgang Zurborn
Drift - Photographs 1980-2006

May 5th until August 16th, 2009


Opening: 6.5.2009, 19:00
Introduction: Ingo Taubhorn, curator of Haus der Fotografie
At the same evening the exhibition of Herbert Tobias will be opened.

May 8th, 2009, 4 p.m.
Booksigning mit Wolfgang Zurborn in der Buchhandlung im Haus
der Photographie: „Drift“ und „China! Which China?“

May 22nd, 2009, 7 p.m.
Lecture: Wolfgang Zurborn in a talk with Ingo Taubhorn

May 23rd, .2009 4 p.m.
Wolfgang Zurborn is presenting his exhibition

20./21.6. 2009
Summer photo workshop by Wolfgang Zurborn in Haus der Photographie
under the title Die Erfindung des Realen

Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Deichtorstraße 1 - 2
Germany - 20095 Hamburg
phone +49-(0)40-32 10 30
fax +49-(0)40-32 10 3-230
www.deichtorhallen.de
opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11 a.m.- 6 p.m.

Wolfgang Zurborn, untitled, Dortmund 1981

Special edition for the exhibition
Haus der Photographie is publishing a special edition for the exhibition from the image untitled, Maastricht 2002 (see above) from the series Drift in an edition of 30 prints plus 5 AP, paper size 40x30 cm, color print, signed, dated and numbered.
subscription price during the exhibition: 250.- Euro

Presentation of the book edition China! Which China?
A project by Heine/Lenz/Zizka and Schaden.com
Photographs by Wolfgang Zurborn from Beijing and Shanghai 2006.
The edition box is including a 4x4 section, 42x31.5cm leporello and an original print in the same size. You can chose between the two depicted images (each edition 50 + 3 AP).
subcription price: 180 Euro
afterwards: 280 Euro
collectors edition with original photographs of all
16 images printed in the leporello, edition 7 + 3 AP,
subsdription price 2 200 Euro, afterwards 3 000 Euro.
order at Schaden.com

both images: untitled. Shanghai 2006  

untitled, Beijing 2006,
from the publication
China! Which China?

untitled, Beijing 2006

China Stories

Ruskin Gallery - Cambridge School of Art (CSA)
at Anglia Ruskin University, UK

Exhibition curated by Tina Schelhorn

Wolfgang Zurborn - untitled, Beijing 2006

Harvey Benge - Auckland, New Zealand
Oyvind Hjelmen - Stord, Norway
Ferit Kuyas - Zürich, Switzerland
Pok Chi Lau - Kansas City, USA
Elaine Ling - Toronto, Canada
Christopher Rauschenberg - Portland, USA
Gerard Saitner - Paris, France
Wolfgang Zurborn - Cologne, Germany

April 3rd - April 18th, 2009

Opening: April 2nd, 2009

Ruskin Gallery - Cambridge School of Art (CSA)
at Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Cambridge Campus
East Road, Cambridge, CB1 1PT
Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Sat 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Harvey Benge - China Story My pictures explore the strange anthropology of cities. The unusual and overlooked in the human landscape. The democracy of non-places fascinates me, in the knowledge that inevitably nothing is as it seems. These are series I made in 2006 and 2007 when I was a guest at the Pingyao Festival in Shanxi Province China.

Øyvind Hjelmen - Journey Elsewhere When I travelled through China In December 2007.I tried to note my impressions of little bits of grace and surprise that I discover day by day. One may ask, is such a journey really a journey elsewhere, or is it just a journey going deeper within oneself? To be honest, I think both ideas are true…

Ferit Kuyas - City of Ambition This is a visit to one of the largest cities in the world, Chongqing, populated by roughly 32 million people. I am mainly interested in the outskirts of Chongqing, where the city can’t be really seen but sensed, like a tiger moving through the jungle – invisible, yet there.

Pok Chi Lau – China 1979 -1982 - Post Chairman Mao Period When Lau was 19 and living in Hong Kong, his parents borrowed enough money to pay for two cameras, a plane ticket and college tuition. He studied at the Brooks Institute of Photography and the California Institute of the Arts. Beginning in the late 1970s, Lau traveled from one Chinatown to the next documenting the lives of Chinese immigrants working at mines, railroads, laundries and restaurants and often living in cramped conditions.

Wolfgang Zurborn - China! Which China? In June 2006 I visited Beijing and Shanghai. The challenge of the encounter with the unfamiliar world was to transform the personal experience of the highly complex and interlaced parallel worlds of these "Megacities" into an individual picture language which should not keep the unknown in the realm of the exotic but which discovers the nearness in the strange.

Elaine Ling – China Stones is a journey (1995) down the Spirit Road, a long avenue flanked on either side by pairs of stone sculptures of animals and figures, This road leads up to an earth tumulus beneath which lies the underground palace in which the emperor's body rested surrounded by treasures and other objects placed for use in the afterlife.

Chris Rauschenberg was travelling in China in 1985. He is looking at the urban spaces in China in a very fragmentary view. Objects of everyday life are developing an absurd own life. His panoramic photographs are forcing the very subjective construction of space.

Ferit Kuyas- City of Ambition

Pok Chi Lau -
China 1979 -1982

Harvey Benge - China Story

Oyvind Hjelmen - Journey Elsewhere

Les Paysage en Mutation

Mission Photographique Transmanche

Wolfgang Zurborn At the Centre of the Speed #8, 1996

Ralph Hinterkeuser
Martin Parr
Wolfgang Zurborn

November 29th - December 14th 2008
Opening: November 29th 2008, 11 a.m.

Galerie d’Exposition Pablo Picasso
Rue Roger Salengro
Denain, France
phone 03 27 43 33 26

The photographic series by Ralph Hinterkeuser, Martin Parr and Wolfgang Zurborn are part of the project La Mission Photographique Transmanche (1987-2005), organised by Centre Régionale de la Photographie, Nord Pas-de-Calais (CRP). They are reflecting the different influences on this region in the North of France forced by the new construction of Europe.

The construction of the tunnel under the channel is the symbol of European construction and its territorial development. This development favours communications networks and high-speed exchanges. Those in power decided on just-in-time distribution for the communications logistics. Speed and just-in-time, to the point of saturation, have become the very attributes of the powers-that-be.                               Pierre Devin, former director of the CRP.

Wolfgang Zurborn
At the Centre of the Speed #22, 1996

China! Which China?

Exhibition in V8 Gallery, Cologne

Publication by Schaden.com
in collaboration with Heine/Lenz/Zizka

Wolfgang Zurborn, "China! Which China?"
Photographs from Beijing and Shanghai 2006
4x4 section, 42x31.5cm leporello

A project by Heine/Lenz/Zizka and Schaden.com
Design: Heine/Lenz/Zizka, Frankfurt, Berlin
Publisher: Schaden.com, Cologne
ISBN: 3-932187-12-1
Price: 48.- Euro

Slideshow presenting the publication

Exhibition in V8 Gallery, Cologne

Opening: September 5th 2008, 7 p.m.
exhibition dates: September 5th – November 21st 2008
Opening hours: Mon – Fri, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

V8 Gallery
Mohrenstraße 2
50670 Cologne
phone:: +49 221-9985994
fax: +49 221-9985990
www.v8-galerie.de
contact: Inga Schneider


Booksigning and Cooking
in collaboration with schaden.com at V8 Gallery.
September 25th 2008, 7 p.m.
Wolfgang Zurborn and Markus Schaden will be cooking chinese food in the inner courtyard.

Workshop
September 28th 2008, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. at V8 Gallery
within the frame of the exhibition „China! Which China?“
Zurborn will explain his photographic strategies and will review the portfolios of the participants. Max. 12 participants, workshop fee: 100 Euro.
For more information please contact: Inga Schneider.

China! Which China?

In June 2006 I visited Beijing and Shanghai. The challenge of the encounter with the unfamiliar world was to transform the personal experience of the highly complex and interlaced parallel worlds of these "Megacities" into an individual picture language which should not keep the unknown in the realm of the exotic but which discovers the nearness in the strange.

I started my trip in Beijing and I was absolutely fascinated by this city, because I had the feeling, that the past and the future are present at the same time. In some parts of Beijing you can feel the long history of this city, in other parts the development and growing of this megacity is so quick that you could imagine to be in a science fiction film.

The life in the streets of Beijing and Shanghai appears like a dense collage of signs, people and structures, a kind of semiotic overkill that is hard to decode at first, but exactly this was the very special challenge for me to describe the ambivalence and the great vividness of the urban life. I had the feeling, that the circumstances of life are changing every day, so it seems to be a very interesting place to be at this time.

Zurborn's work from China resembles his previous efforts. That is to say, he's captured what appear to be digital montages, composed from the worlds of advertising, construction, pedestrians and tourists. The images, extremely well composed and often making use of shop-window reflections, are, in fact, straight photographs, shot for the most part on film.
Excerpt from the article Western Eyes by Bill Kouwenhoven
in British Journal of Photography, 23.7.2008

Third Lianzhou International Photo Festival 2007

Wolfgang Zurborn, untitled, Lianzhou, 2007

Third Lianzhou International Photo Festival, China
Contemporary Chinese and international Photography

In the program of the festival:
Wolfgang Zurborn Drift

Dezember 8th - 22nd 2007

Article in the magazine The Bund, Shaghai about my photography.

The atmosphere of the Third Lianzhou International Photo Festival was really fantastic, meeting so many Chinese and International photographers in very interesting exhibition places. I could see a lot of good presentations of contemporary photography in a wide range of artistic approaches from documentary to staged photography. This was one of the most positive aspects of the festival for me, that it gave such an complex view on the possibilities of this medium without any narrow ideology.
The slideshow shouöd give you an impression of this great event.

Slideshow with images of the festival

(enlarged display by clicking on the images)

untitled, Lianzhou 2007

Open Mind

A publication by Siemens Enterprise Communications
curated by Tina Schelhorn

With photographs by:

Anja Engelke, Esther Levine, Kate Mellor,
Linda Troeller, Marla Sweeney, Wolfgang Zurborn

Wolfgang Zurborn, Terra Incognita #2, Bielefeld 2002

German Photo Book Award 2008 for Drift

24 excellent new photo books have been chosen by a jury for the
German Photo Book Price 2008.

Awarded books amongst others by:
Olaf Otto Becker, Edward Burtynsky, Cristóbal Hara, Jacob Holdt,
Brigitte Kraemer, Christian Lutz, Walter Niedermayr, Urs Odermatt,
Paolo Pellegrin, Ricarda Roggan, Margherita Spiluttini, Lars Tunbjörk, Tim Walker, Henry Wessel, Wolfgang Zurborn

German Photo Book Award 2008

Drift

Book Launch and Exhibition

Wolfgang Zurborn Drift, Kehrer Publisher, Heidelberg

Slideshow Drift
(enlarged display by clicking on the images)

The Exhibition

Gallery Lichtblick, Cologne

October 27th – November 25th 2007

opening and booksigning: Saturday, Oktober 27th, 2007, 8 pm
introduction: Peter V. Brinkemper

Gallery Lichtblick
Steinbergerstr. 21
50733 Cologne
fon + fax: 0221 729149
lichtblick@web.de
www.lichtblicknet.com

hours: Fri. 7 - 9 pm, Sat + Sun 2 - 6 pm

The Book

The book Drift is published by Kehrer, Heidelberg
Design: Heine/Lenz/Zizka, Frankfurt/Berlin
59 colour photographs by Wolfgang Zurborn
text by Peter V. Brinkemper, English/German
144 pages, 24,5 x 18 cm, hard cover
ISBN 978-3-939583-68-4
price: 36 Euro/ 40 $, packing and shipping extra

Drift  buy now

The Editions

attendent to the book Drift there are also published two editions
each with a signed print 23 x 17 cm.
The images you can see on the right:
untitled., Wolfsburg, 2001 and untitled., Cologne, 2005
edition: 30 of each image
price: 120 Euro/ 170 $, packing and shipping extra

You can order the edition by Kehrer.

untitled, Wolfsburg, 2001

untitled., Cologne, 2005

Drift

Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas

Exhibition at PDNB Gallery in Dallas, August 2007

PDNB Gallery
1202 Dragon Street, Suite 103
Dallas, TX 75207
phone: 214.969.1852
fax: 214.745.9901
info@pdnbgallery.com
www.pdnbgallery.com

Review in Dallas Morning News

The German photographer Wolfgang Zurborn, showing at Photographs Do Not Bend, makes brightly colored photographs of fragmented objects. The images bring to mind the collage-based paintings of pop artist James Rosenquist...

Mounted on aluminum, the shiny surfaces of Mr. Zurborn's photographs are tight and resolute. The completeness of each image runs counter to the topsy-turvy movement he distills. The photographs seem captured on the go. A photo from Wolfsburg in 2002 shows the shiny black front fender of an old VW Bug reflecting a sliver of an adjacent billboard. The figure from the billboard is anamorphic, distorted as though captured in motion.

Charissa N. Terranova

The exhibition was sponsered by Dallas Goethe Center and by Lufthansa.

20 Years Galerie Lichtblick

from the picture story 20 Years Lichtblick

In spring 1986 Tina Schelhorn, Stefan Worring, Norbert Görtz, Kristian Rüdiger, Ingrid Zeller und Detlef Hansen had the spontaneus idea to run a photo gallery. Half a year later Wolfgang Zurborn joined the team of Galerie Lichtblick.

Since the very beginning as a collective the gallery was growing during all the years to a center for contemporary photography by the intensive co-operation with Tina Schelhorn. In more then 150 exhibitions with German and International photographers we were showing a variety of present themes and new visual conceptions from all over the world.

One important aspect for the gallery is to build up an international network with artists, galleries, festivals and other institutions.

The slideshow on this website is not only giving a review on the program of the last twenty years, it is also a personal document of many meetings with artists and friends of the gallery.

slideshow 20 Years Gallery Lichtblick

from 20 Years Gallery Lichtblick

Tina Schelhorn,
10 Years Lichtblick, 1996

images against war

Peace Museum, Chicago

September/October 2006

An exhibition organised by Gallery Lichtblick
with statements of more than 600 artists from all over the world.

Curated by Tina Schelhorn.

Wolfgang Zurborn, untitled, 1996

The collection images against war was shown at several exhibition spaces all over Europe and in May it was presented at Fotofestival Lódz in Poland.
The show is now travelling to America, to Chicago in Illinois and to
Cincinnati in Ohio.

Peace Museum
located in the Gold Dome Building
100 N. Central Park Ave.
Chicago, Illinois
phone 773.638.6450

Thursday-Friday 1 - 6 pm
Saturday-Sunday 12 - 4 pm

Further information about images against war on:

Krzysztof Cichosz

Liu Jing

Pilar Albajar/Antonio Altarriba

Peter Granser

James Lerager

11th Dom Fotografie Summer Photoschool

Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia

Fiona Rukschcio            Lucia Benicka               Ernestine Ruben

11TH YEAR of the Summer Photoschool has run from 5th till 16th July, 2006 in the city of Liptovsky Mikulas . SUMMER PHOTOSCHOOL is an educational project organized by the non-profit and private organization - House of Photography in Slovakia. Its primary mission is education through arts and photography.

Summer Photoschool 2006 offered 13 INTENSIVE PHOTOGRAPHY CLASSES COVERING SEVERAL TOPICS AND GENRES by reknowned lecturers from 9 countries: Austria - Fiona Rukschcio; Bulgaria - Boris Missirkov & Georgi Bogdanov; Czech Republic - Jaroslav Barta, Víta Krejãí, Jirka Petera; Finland - Kari Holopainen; Great Britain - Ian Wiblin; Germany - Wofgang Zurborn; Hungary - Ágnes Eperjesi; Slovakia - Jozef Cesla, Martin Crep, Tomás AGAT Blonski; USA - Ernestine Ruben).

Workshop "Ordering and Chaos" by Wolfgang Zurborn

with the participants: Adèle Benesová, Peter Burda, Lucie Michnova, Martin Mocik, Petr Nagy, Silvia Sencekova, Peter Sugár

Workshop with Wolfgang Zurborn

The key to the quest for order in photography, involving the interplay of bodies, objects, signs and spaces transforming them to a legible structure, to a comprehensible composition, is not to lose sight of chaos. It is precisely this chaos that gives photography its unlimited liveliness. In this workshop we want to elaborate these kind of visual experiments for discovering personal aspects of our everyday life.

results of the workshop

Petr Nagy

Peter Burda

Lucie Michnova

Twin Pics

#TAUSEND Bar & Galerie

Wolfgang Zurborn, Amsterdam, 2005

texts by Peter Schuffelen & Diashow "Amsterdam"

Wolfgang Zurborn - Amsterdam

April 5th- May 2nd, 2006

#TAUSEND Bar & Galerie
Aachener Sraße 57
50674 Köln

For the first time the "Amsterdam" series of Wolfgang Zurborn is shown within the scope of "Twin Pics", an exhibition curated by image agency Picture Shuttle. The photographers Martin Menke, Ela Mergels und Damian Zimmermann show several pairs of pictures, which although being very different - together they evolve the effect, once being concrete and expressive the other time they seem to be strange and mysterious.

In may 2005 I had the possibility of exploring Amsterdam for the magazine "Blogga", using a mobile phone in order to make pictures. The scenery on the street being lively and chaotic at the same time intrigued me. I was amazed by the possibilities using such a tool being able to react that spontaneous and flexible. It resulted in a work, which leaves lots of space for subjective impressions, but at the same time it's telling something about the place where the picture has been taken.

untitled, Amsterdam 2005

Marks of Honour - A striking Library

As a homage to the photobook per se the exhibition
Marks Of Honour – A Striking Library has been created in a
cooperation between Amsterdam galerist Willem van Zoetendaal
and Cologne bookseller Markus Schaden. They have invited
45 international photographers to choose a photobook which was
influential to the formation of their work, and to pay it artistical homage.

Wolfgang Zurborn, from the Portfolio "Drift" as a
hommage to "Like a One-Eyed Cat" by Lee Friedlander

Marks of Honour - A striking Library

11.-15. May 2005
FOAM Amsterdam
Keizersgracht 609
11.00 - 21.00 h
www.foam.nl

18. - 21. Mai 2005
Gallerie van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam
Keizersgracht 488
11.00 - 21.00 h
www.vanzoetendaal.nl

Participating photographers:

Morten Andersen, Paul Andriesse, Sara Blokland, Andy Bosma, Tudor Bratu, Koos Breukel, Olivier Cablat, Serge Clement, Eli Content, Nicolas Descottes, Leo Divendal, Charlotte Dumas, Machiel Botman, Bertrand Fleuret, Albrecht Fuchs, Julian Germain, Stephen Gill, Jacqueline Hassink, Elias Hassos, Koen Hauser, Todd Hido, Cuny Janssen, Verena Kaltenbach, Dirk Kome, Paul Kooiker, Katrin Korfmann, Jan Koster, ULAY, Andreas Friedrich, Loodwick Press Images, Simone Nieweg, Arno Nollen, Martin Parr, Nina Poppe, Diana Scherer, Ken Schles, Joachim Schmid, Johannes Schwartz, Harold Strak, Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber, Ruth van Beek, Carla van de Puttelaar, Mark van den Brink, Bertien van Manen, Jasper Wiedeman, Wolfgang Zurborn

All participating works (limited to five copies, each containing the original photobook and it´s complentary homage) offer a wide spectrum that´s often surprising in detail: Martin Parr has chosen Arakis Banquet, Koos Breukel has chosen Ed van der Elsken, Todd Hido will comment on Susan Sontags On Photography.
In sum Marks Of Honour constitutes a singular library and a system of reference on the most sustainable influences as much as the freshest in contemporary photography.


My homage to the photo book is dedicated to Lee Friedlander and his publication "Like a One-Eyed Cat". These photographs have influenced me since the time of my studies in the early 80s. They opened my view for the complexity of the perception of every day life.
For the edition "Marks of Honour" I put together twelve photographs from my recent project "Drift" as inkjet prints in a portfolio with an original photograph on the cover. Limited to five copies it is available combined with the book "Like a One-Eyed Cat" by Lee Friedlander in a linen slipcase.

Lee Friedlander

Wolfgang Zurborn

Edition with Lee Friedlanders
"Like a One-Eyed Cat" and "Drift" by Wolfgang Zurborn

DISLOCATION MAGAZINE 15

Spring 2005
Geography Issue

Wolfgang Zurborn, LUsionen#6, 2003

Download DISLOCATION MAGAZINE 15

Publisher: Ocean & Pounds, 187 stn C. Toronto Ontario, Canada MJ 3M9
Edited by NuNaHeDuo Organization of Contemporary Photography

Editorial Note by Holly Lee: Landscape and mindscape. By majority, in contrast to the classic definition of landscape, the eleven photographers featured in the Geography issue are working inwardly on their own personal terrains. Landscapes of absence and loss, phantoms and ghosts. Landscapes charged with political connotations, marked by and erased of history. Landscapes conveying emotional interiors. Landscapes of investigative and voyeuristic nature. Insignificant urban and suburban settings finding new shorelines, snappy carefree sketches portraying modern life.

Escaping

Written by P. Elaine Sharpe
Photographs by Anthony Hopewell (UK), Dinu Li (UK), Gina Glover (UK),
Wolfgang Zurborn (DE), Stephen Vaughan (UK), Toni Hafkenscheid (CA),
Christoph Burtscher (DE)

...In looking at Zurborn’s images I find myself in the role of flaneuse, intent on the desire to have no destination other than to become lost in the strata of a familiar and yet unknown urban landscape. The meanderings in and out of the parallel layers of information contained within the frame are what become significant, the edges taking me back into the centre only to depart again. The images are seductive, rich, layered, almost hallucinatory and blinding at the same time. They don’t follow the rules of what an image is supposed to be. They don’t make sense and they leave us with a certainty that we understand this lost-ness. Zurborn revels in this chaos; he celebrates it and despite our resistance, we embrace the anti-graphic nature of that which he wants us to see...

untitled, Cologne 1998

Photo Walls Neumarkt

Photo Walls Neumarkt, Stefan Worring, Wolfgang Zurborn

Slideshow Photo Walls Neumarkt

As one of the first photographic works in the public space in 1987 the "Fotowände Neumarkt" by Stefan Worring and Wolfgang Zurborn were installed in the subway station Neumarkt in Cologne.
Due to the renovation of the station, which was necessary for raising the platforms, the original walls must be removed, but could be reconstructed as light boxes thanks to the conception of the architect Kay Trint.

This kind of presentation is forcing the impact of the photo collages in the space. Fragmentic views on the day-to-day life happening on the Neumarkt, a big place in the center of Cologne, architectural details, street scenes, bodies and faces, are combined to a picture enigma. Every partial picture has a sensual artery of sharply focussed and blurred zones, of colourful photographs with a lot of details and very grafically reduced photocopies. Their particular degrees of abstraction create a subtle balancing act between the free act of associative view and the undeniable reference to social reality.

Photo walls Neumarkt

Theatre Spaces

New publications

Spiel_Orte, 2004

This year I had the privilege to complete two photographic projects for the Theatre of the City of Bielefeld that dealt with the theatre space itself in different ways.
These included interior images and still lifes from the labyrinthian rooms of the theatre and show the traces of its century long history.In this book to celebrate the Theatre’s Centenary, these forty full-frame color photographs present the reader with a view of the areas of the theatre the theatregoer rarely sees.
The series, Play Places, projects images of past productions in the new stages of the theatre and gives play to the tension between theatrical dramaturgy and the physical space of the theatre itself. It is scarcely possible to separate the levels of actual reality and the projected imagination. Indeed, the stage itself is freed from being tied to a particular place and time.
These images of this imaginary spaces made possible by the Theatre may be found in the 2004/2005 Theatre Programme.

Slide show with the series "Spiel_Orte"
on the website of the German Photographic Academy.
Look at "aktuelle Portfolios" on the left side

Publications for the Theater of the City of Bielefeld:
"100 Years Theatre Bielefeld" and "Theatre Programme 2004/2005"

100 Years Theatre of the City of Bielefeld

Terra Incognita

Publication by "Democtic Books"

Wolfgang Zurborn, "Terra Incognita #14", 2002

On the 27th of September DesignWork will publish a book of photographs from the series "Terra Incognita". The book may be downloaded at no cost from the website www.democraticbooks.org.

The series of DesignWork books has included books by Dirk Gebhardt, David Klammer and Andrew Buurman. By the end of the year twenty books will be online.

Wolfgang Zurborn has been working as a professional photographer for the Bielefeld City Theatre for many years. He is a constant companion to their rehearsals and performances, casting an expert eye over the interplay between light and shadow, facial expression and make-up, all so vital to capture our imagination and create illusion. With Zurborn‘s guidance, we may literally explore Bielefeld as unknown territory. How is that achieved? The visual artist and photographer Wolfgang Zurborn puts a surprisingly ambivalent perspective on what we thought we knew already, thus uncovering, exaggerating and disintegrating the stereotypes in everyday life – the trifles which make the sum of life. Zurborn speaks of the “Dressur Real” of the ordinary things. He is a master of productive alienation (cf. Brecht’s Galilei) and experimental viewing – stylistic devices which, in many respects, resemble the dramatic tricks in a stunning production of a play.

text and slideshow

Terra Incognita #15

FrancoForte - Die Pizzeria 7Bello

Schaden Verlag; Heine/ Lenz/ Zizka 2003

Wolfgnag Zurborn, FrancoForte 2003

Una Pizza Fotografica, per favore! With heavy toppings of the flair of
Frankfurts train station area and lots of small details, showing the charm
of Francos Pizzeria. Wolfgang Zurborns photographs and texts by
Claudia Willvonseder and Peter Zizka in German and Italian invite your imagination to take in the smell and feel your mouth water - take a bite.
Books on order at Schaden.com (14,80 Euro).

The book "FrancoForte" was honoured by the “iF communication design award” in the category photography.

Views of Brand Culture: Leica

Published by Volker Albus and Achim Heine

with photographs for example by Ilse Bing, Henri Cartier-Bresson,
René Burri, William Eggelston, Alfred Eisenstädt, Elliot Erwitt, Ralph Gibson, Bruce Gilden, Nan Goldin, Barbara Klemm, Will McBride, Martin Parr,
Alexander Rodtschenko, Sebastiao Salgado, Alex Webb, Wolfgang Zurborn

Positionen der Markenkultur/Views of Brand Culture: Leica
© 2004 Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH, Berlin
ISBN 3-87584-106-9, 14,90 Euro

pages by Wolfgang Zurborn in this publication

Things look at us
Statement by Wolfgang Zurborn in the book about Leica

Photography can provide us with more than just the confirmation of what we already knew. Of course, the temptation is great just to opt for a stable view of the world. That provides a clear sense of order and everything looks so beautiful. A false reality, blocking out the intentions and emotions of the photographer, who wants to provide us with a possible key to help us orient ourselves in this labyrinth of the world.
The unique possibilities presented by the medium of photography are comprised precisely of this dialogue with the outside world and the ability to continually question the perception of it according to one’s criteria, in order to expose it, transform it into a visual experiment. The key to the quest for order in photography, involving the interplay of bodies, objects, signs and spaces transforming them to a legible structure, to a comprehensible composition, is not to lose sight of chaos. It is precisely this chaos that gives photography its unlimited liveliness.
Normally, we would hardly take notice of many of these objects, which appear insignificant and banal to us. Torn away from their purely functional context, in fragmented form, visually compact, they take on such a highly sensual aura, that they develop deep associations for the observer. We don’t look at things. Things look at us.

Views of Brand Culture: Leica

City Gallery Prag,
Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin,
The Museum Moscow House of Photography
Museum Bochum

On the Body and Other Things-
German Photography of the 20th Century

Wolfgang Zurborn, untitled, Bottrop 1999

Exhibition curated by Klaus Honnef and Gabriele Honnef-Harling

The exhibition is showing more then 300 representative images from
57 authors including photographic work from:
Dieter Appelt, Wolfgang Zurborn, Bernd und Hilla Becher, Candida Höfer,
Karl Bloßfeldt, August Sander, Anna and Bernhard Johannes Blume,
Wolfgang Tillmans,László Moholy-Nagy, Floris Neusüss, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Klaus Rinke

Contemporary German photography has gained worldwide respect over the past 10 years. Thanks to systematic education, many leading photographers have come from Germany and also form the basic foundation for this visual project. The exhibition maps out the development of German photography in the 20th century and introduces all key moments from the turn of the century through Neue Sachlichkeit to conceptual expressions.

Exhibitions "dressur real" since 2001

05/2001      Schaden.com, Cologne
05/2001      Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne
06/2001     "Split View", m54 Projektraum Base, Switzerland
09/2001      Photography Now, Berlin
09-11/2001 L’Usine Galerie, Brussels, Belgium
10/2001      6. Internationale Fototage Herten
01-02/2002 Alte Feuerwache Mannheim
04-08/2002 galerie coiffeur Burg, Musberg
06-07/2002 GALERIE DER KÜNSTLER, Munich
03/2003      Gallery FF, Lodz, Poland
05/2003      Gaerie Schulgasse 18, Eibelstadt by Würzburg
09/2003      Dokument 03, Sundsvall, Sweden
06/2003      "Von Körpern und anderen Dingen – Deutsche                   Fotografie von der Weimarer bis zur Berliner Republik"
                  City Gallery Prague, Czech
09/2003      Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin,
03/2004      The Museum Moscow House of Photography and
05/2004      Museum Bochum
01/2005      Prospekto Gallery, Vilnius, Litauen

"On the Body and other Things", City Gallery Prague, Zurborn, Gursky

View into the exhibition
Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

untitled, Cologne 1992

book "dressur real"

dressur real
text and images

Editions "dressur real

Edition deluxe with hardcover
in an acrylic slip case including an original photo,
diasec, ed. 10

Edition with hardcover and an original photo 21,5 x 28 cm,
matted, ed. 50

Missing Pictures

curated by Gabriele Honnef-Harling and Prof. Klaus Honnef

Künstlerforum Bonn

9. - 30.1.2005

"21 internationally known photographers, both from art and advertising backgrounds, hindsight a fresh view of people with disabilities in their exhibition 'Bilder, die noch fehlten'. They offered a never experienced way of looking at the individuality and dignity of a human being that is not 'disabled' by the stereotypes of perception, which dominate our collective picture memory".
(From the press text)

Wolfgang Zurborn, untitled, Colgne 2000

Künstlerforum Bonn
Hochstadenring 22-24
53119 Bonn
phone +49 (0)228 766 767 4
info@kuenstlerforum-Bonn.de

opening hours:
Tue-Fri 3 p.m.-6 p.m., Sat 2 p.m.-5 p.m., Sun 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Neue Sächsische Galerie Chemnitz
17.10. - 16.11.2003
ZDF Mainz
13.1. - 7.2.2003
The Museum Moscow House of Photography
4.6. - 26.6.2002
Kunsthalle Villa Kobe, Halle
28.2. - 14.4.2002
Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin
26.10. - 30.11.2001
Museum Dr. Guislain, Gent
7.4. - 1.7.2001
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden
6.9. - 8.10.2000

Slide show | Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden

Catalogue of the exhibition